Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On 2024-10-04, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-04 9:05 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-03, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-03 5:44 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-02 9:12 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-02 8:23 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2024-10-02, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2024-10-01 4:40 p.m., DFS wrote:

On 10/1/2024 2:51 PM, Farley Flud wrote:

On Tue, 1 Oct 2024 08:58:44 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:
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I disagree. I've repeatedly decided to throw myself head first into an
experience that was solely Linux only to find out that there were
going
to be certain issues. I had serious slowdowns and screen tearing in
2013
with gaming, I had random freezes in the last year, I've had
suspend/wake issues throughout and in the last year (the only
machine I
owned which never had this problem with Linux is my 2006 Dell).
Problems
aren't hard to find. One must really be dedicated to the idea of
getting
rid of Windows to disregard them.

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Fuck you, imbecile!
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Millions use GNU/Linux and the only ones who have problems are the
brain-dead, retarded asshole like you.

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"I have serious problems with GNU/Linux from time to time and it's
always a bit of a struggle trying to get things back on track."
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Feeb, March 2018

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I never expect Linux advocates to tell the truth. In Feeb's case, I
don't expect anything at all since all of his nyms are filtered. Wasting
even five seconds reading his garbage is too much.

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I never expect anti-Linux FUDsters to ever tell the truth about Linux. Their
"goto tactic" is to call Linux advocates liars. I don't lie, but I guess
they anti-Linux FUDsters are projecting.

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You're probably the only one here who doesn't exaggerate how great Linux
is. You might not face the same problems that I do, but at least you
concede that it is possible that they would happen. That's already a lot
more than most Linux advocates. Most will deny that a problem exists and
insult you for having experienced it.

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I've seen that with some Linux "advocates" as well. I don't get it. There is
no "one size fits all." I don't even try to convince my wife or kids to use
Linux because what they want or need isn't really available (or as readily
available) in Linux (Windows games for my kids and Microsoft Office and
(now) AI crap for my wife).

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They've used Microsoft Office as an excuse to stick to Windows for so
long that it's become boring. Other than DFS, I don't think anyone
realistically needs what the suite offers. Sure, it's better for some
and you won't fall into compatibility issues when your friends or
colleagues send you their documents, but that's about as good as it
realistically gets. Office's web interface used through Linux or
LibreOffice will do its job quite well, especially when you factor in
that it cost you nothing to try.

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For text editing I was JOE (Jstar variant). For word processing I use
WordStar for DOS in DOSBox-X, convert the file to RTF format and read it
into LibreOffice or TextMaker. It keeps the formatting from WordStar and I
can keep writing in my favorite word processor — which I've been using for
over 30 years. GUI word processors get in the way for me. I can't help
messing around with the format instead of worrying about what I'm writing

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You're not the only one. Products have emerged since the explosion in
popularity of things like WordPerfect and Word which go back to the old
way, where the interface stays out of sight. The priority should be on
the content you produce, not the aesthetics of the software. That's part
of why people shouldn't care, for example, that Word 2024 is prettier
than Word 2021.

 
Completely agree. Very little that I write needs to be "fancified." Jstar
and WordStar don't get in the way of writing with desktop publishing
features.

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If I were a more talented or prolific writer and had enough good ideas
to write a number of novels, the only things I would need from a word
processor are a thesaurus and a spelling checker. I don't see how having
a load of beautiful, smooth menus would improve any of what I write.

Yep. And WordStar 4-7 for DOS all came with spell checkers and thesauruses,
(thesaurusi?).

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